Tuesday, February 3, 2015

The Obama administration is going all out to see that Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is defeated, but the campaign of veiled
threats and anonymous leaks is backfiring: Instead of sinking in the
polls, Netanyahu is rising.[...]
While White House officials were threatening Israel, the news broke that
Obama’s 2012 national field director, Jeremy Bird, was headed to Tel
Aviv to manage a grass-roots campaign
to oust Netanyahu. Bird would not be working to defeat Netanyahu if he
thought Obama opposed it. Can you imagine Karl Rove going to London
while George W. Bush was in office to help conservatives oust Prime
Minister Tony Blair? It further emerged that the group behind Bird’s
anti-Netanyahu effort has received State Department funding and lists
the State Department as a “partner” on its Web site. Netanyahu’s Likud Party held a news conference to accuse
its opponents of accepting foreign funds in violation of Israeli
election laws, and Israeli newspapers published headlines on the “Obama-Labor link .”[...]
And indeed the polls in Israel have moved in Netanyahu’s direction since the Obama attacks began.